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America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back is known for it's dedication to putting criminals behind bars, but this week you can be apart of their efforts to help one convicted killer gain his freedom... and prove his innocence. TURNING THE TABLES: CRIME-FIGHTING SHOW HIGHLIGHTS CASE THAT COULD SET CONVICTED KILLER FREE. “America’s Most Wanted” Investigation Shows Justice May NOT Have Been Done. (May 28, 2009), Washington, D.C. – For more than two decades, “America’s Most Wanted” has profiled fugitives and asked the public to help cops chase them down. But in a special episode this Saturday May 30th (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX, AMW Host John Walsh will ask viewers to consider whether one man caught, tried and convicted of murder should NOT be behind bars. In a turnabout for a show that has helped thousands of people get justice, Walsh will investigate a case that raises the question of whether justice has truly been served. When police found the body of a Missour...

A MILLIONAIRE’S OUTRAGEOUS SEX LIFE MAY HAVE LED TO HIS GRUESOME MURDER – ON “48 HOURS MYSTERY,” SATURDAY, MAY 30 Charlie White was a larger-than-life Texas millionaire. Ambitious, bold and brash, he lived a lavish lifestyle that included a private jet, luxury vacations, parties and beautiful women. But it all came to a gruesome end in 2005 when police were called to his lakeside mansion. The eccentric millionaire had been murdered, mercilessly beaten, with an extension cord wrapped around his neck several times. By first impression, White was a very likeable person, but as police began investigating his murder, a darker image of White began to emerge, one of a cruel man with a dangerous mean streak sharpened by arrogance, alcohol and women. With an unbridled passion for the fairer sex, White bedded and rated the sexual prowess of over a thousand women, including strippers and prostitutes. And White didn’t stop there, satisfying his sexual appetite with the girlfriends of his...

Melecio Camacho, the Mexican national who was living in South Sioux City for perhaps months, who has family still back in Mexico and who was recently arrested, would like a public defender. Not for just another petty crime, but for the vicious rape and murder of a 3 year old girl. "It was an extremely vicious and brutal crime,"said South Sioux City Police chief Scot Ford. He said evidence shows that in the middle of the night, Camacho brutality raped and murdered a 3-year old girl while her parents slept. "The daughter was a victim of an extreme sexual assault," he said. Apparently Camacho knew the family. The attack took place in the home where the little girl lived with her parents, her brother and a months-old sister. Her mother discovered the crime when she woke up to take care of the baby. Ford said the suspect apparently entered the home through a window that didn't work properly, and did not wake the family inside the house. Police say, Camacho fled the h...

Kenneth Eugene Jackson starting abusing his two stepdaughters when they were 9 and 7. The abuse went as far as even getting the older child pregnant. Jackson had a previous conviction for sexual abuse prior to his encounters with the young girls. Thankfully, this time the judge seems to have gotten it right when sentencing this sexual predator: Dressed in a mustard-colored jailhouse uniform, Jackson avoided eye contact with family members of the victims, who were in court for Wednesday's sentencing hearing. During the emotional hearing, the victims' aunt pleaded with Judge Carol Ash to "throw the book" at Jackson, saying both girls have been through an unimaginably traumatic ordeal. The aunt said the older girl required a C-section operation to deliver her baby -- and couldn't walk across the stage for her eighth-grade graduation because she was in the hospital. "She has that scar for the rest of her life," she said. "Mentally and physically, (the v...

I always tend to find it annoying, no wait, infuriating when people decide after the fact that perhaps they need help. Too many times, these willful pleas for "help" are nothing more than a begging for leniency. Such is likely the case of Robert Charles Heydorn, who is currently facing six counts of molestation of a child and one count of sexual abuse. Heydorn waiting until after molesting a 9 year old girl, and after finding out that he was being investigated for it to head down to police and inform them he had a problem... Heydorn was first interviewed by police in 2008 and denied any wrongdoing. He learned he was being investigated again recently and reportedly went to Surprise police officers and said he needed to get some help for “hurting the girls.” He also said he would continue to molest girls if he did not get any help. First he denies any wrong doing, and then he decides to come clean and ask for help? Nice how that works out for him, he just victimizes a ch...

The following cases will be airing this week on America's Most Wanted, Saturday night at 9 pm on your local Fox station. And, you can always find more on these cases and many others at their website, www.amw.com Hendersonville, North Carolina … JAIME AROCHE… In 2005, a Hendersonville, N.C. teenager found her mother’s dead body under a pile of dirty blankets in their home. Her mother’s boyfriend, Jaime Aroche, was charged with the murder. Now, AMW is teaming up with cops to help find him. http://www.amw.com/fugitives/ brief.cfm?id=54928 Middletown, Rhode Island … JAMES BELL … Parents near Providence, R.I., were in for the shock of their lives when they found out that James Bell -- the trusted gymnastics coach at a local YMCA -- was accused of molesting their children. What's more, cops say this is just one incident in a long history of sexual abuse and manipulation. Now, Bell has disappeared, and police are on the manhunt for a predator who they say is responsible for ...

Author Tom Folson has written a new book: THE MAD ONES, about gangster Crazy Joe Gallo. His website can be found here . THE MAD ONES: Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld (Weinstein Books; May 5, 2009) is a powerful collision of true crime and pop culture, telling the family tale of the notorious Gallo brothers, Crazy Joe, Larry, and Kid Blast, and bringing to life one of the most vibrant antiheros in American history. Joey is steeped in legend from Bob Dylan’s eleven-minute ballad “Joey” to fictionalizations central to The Godfather trilogy and Jimmy Breslin’s The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight . Robert Kennedy called Joey a “Hollywood Grade B Gangster.” Truth behind the fiction Coinciding with this year’s 40 th anniversary of the publication of The Godfather , in The Mad Ones , author Tom Folsom brings to life the real life events that inspired Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola’s opus. “Sleeps with the fishes?” “Going to the mattresses?” These fa...

DID A BROTHER AND SISTER CONSPIRE TO MURDER THEIR STEPFATHER? IN A CASE OF HE SAID SHE SAID, IT IS UP TO TWO JURIES IN ONE COURTROOM TO DECIDE IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW THE SIBLINGS DISCUSS WHAT HAPPENED ON “48 HOURS MYSTERY,” SATURDAY, MAY 16 On Thursday July 19th, 2007, the day after his 63rd birthday, Timothy MacNeil, a prominent defense attorney, was shot to death in his San Diego, Calif. home. The only witness was his 17-year-old stepdaughter, Brae Hansen, who was found tied up nearby. She told police a masked gunman had broken in and committed the murder, but left her alive. Thinking Brae to be the victim of the crime, authorities looked to Brae as their best witness to help solve the case. But as she recounted the details of the murder to authorities and to her family, puzzling inconsistencies began to emerge, including the fact that she described the masked gunman by name – Nathan. Brae soon went from being a victim to being a suspect. When q...

The following cases will be airing on America's Most Wanted tonight, at nine pm on your local Fox station. And don't forget to stop by the AMW website , for more on these and other cases. Press release for the newest AMW All Star can be found here. Nationwide … MEXICAN DRUG VIOLENCE INFECTS AMERICA… John Walsh and America’s Most Wanted investigate the dark heart of the war on drugs, taking viewers to the source of the violence that’s spilled over our borders and is infecting American cities. Thousands of people have been killed in Mexico, as the drug cartels battle the government and each other for control of a multi-billion dollar illicit business. http://www.amw.com/features/ feature_story_detail.cfm?id= 3397&mid=0 Douglas, Arizona … JOAQUIN “CHAPO” GUZMAN-LOERA … When Mexican authorities seized 23.5 tons of cocaine from a ship at a port in Manzanillo last year, governments north and south of the border bolstered search efforts for the man they say is responsible:...

After failing to convince the court that the blame for his acts of molestation against two children laid with the allegation that he had been molested as a child himself, Timothy Burke was sentenced to 30 years to Life in prison. It is very difficult for me to explain what happened,” the 37-year-old Shelby man told the court. “The potential was created the first time I was molested. “I have no better explanation for my sudden rash of behaviors. I behaved as that child, exploring the forbidden and unknown.” Burke was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for 16 sex-related counts involving children. Burke molested a boy and a girl, both younger than 10, and videotaped a naked preteen girl between Sept. 4 and Dec. 3. Last month, Burke rejected a plea bargain in which he would cop to five counts in exchange for a recommended sentence of 30 years to life. He instead pleaded guilty to all counts and took a chance he would get a lesser sentence. He could have received a minimum of 15 to li...

Jared Ravin Yaffe has been arrested after attempting to escape charges by fleeing to Brazil. Yaffe is currently charged in connection to allegations that he paid a babysitter to molest children while he videotaped the acts. Yaffe faces 17 counts, including lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, manufacturing child pornography and procuring a child to engage in a lewd act. He also faces one count of kidnapping and one count of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. The babysitter Aaron Zendejas was arrested in January. Full story.

A would be rapist got more than he was asking for when the woman he'd dragged into a wooded area by the hair fought back, hitting him in the head with a rock. State police are still looking for a man who tried to rape a 29-year-old woman who walked near some woods near her western Pennsylvania home. State police in Mercer say the woman was able to fend off the attacker by hitting him in the head with a rock. Police are still searching for the suspect. Source.

A FORMER CHILD ACTOR TURNED COLD-BLOODED KILLER COMMITS A CRIME THAT HORRIFIED THE TOUGHEST OF COPS CBS NEWS “48 HOURS MYSTERY,” SATURDAY, MAY 2 Good met evil in the cold waters off Newport Beach, CA on Nov. 15, 2004, when Tom and Jackie Hawks lay on a bed in the cabin of their yacht, handcuffed and blindfolded by Skylar Deleon and two accomplices. The victims of a vicious plot hatched by Deleon and his wife, Jennifer, the couple signed over the yacht and their life savings in the hopes of being spared. They were not. Tied to an anchor, the Hawkses were yanked into the deep ocean. Tom Hawks was a probation officer and single father of two sons when he fell in love with Jackie. The couple, who married in 1989, shared a love of adventure and upon Tom’s retirement they sold their Arizona home, went to California and purchased the Well Deserved. Life on the 55-foot yacht was an endless fantasy cruise for the couple who would sail up and down the Mexican coast. Skylar De...